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Now that's some activism.
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Is it? It didn't look like they actually did anything but make a mess and maybe dent a few things.
Yup, looks like activism to me. Effectiveness not being the metric measured.
Industrial shit is really resilient. If they wanted to accomplish actually doing damage they’d have used explosives, but that’s a whole next level of charges if/when they get caught… and that wouldn’t really do much additional good because the company probably has insurance to cover the damage anyway.
This is a visibility thing. The public blowing off steam, such as it were, while building awareness of how prevalent things are.
This is throwing soup at a work of art behind glass. But more direct.
You're right, the damage is probably negligible but there's social effect of this action. It may encourage others to do the same